In a video obtained by SaharaReporters, hundreds of smugglers were seen being guarded by some customs officers, giving orders to move at night with different contraband products.
A perfect storm of worsening smuggling activity, massive revenue leakages at major ports and a high-level plot to install a favoured set of junior officers into the top leadership of the Nigeria Customs Service is threatening to plunge the agency into its deepest crisis in decades, multiple authoritative sources have revealed to our correspondent.
The developments come just weeks after President Bola Tinubu approved a six-month extension for the current Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi.
In a video obtained by SaharaReporters, hundreds of smugglers were seen being guarded by some customs officers, giving orders to move at night with different contraband products.
Intelligence familiar with operations at the nation’s borders and ports told SaharaReporters of an agency in freefall, with smuggling activities skyrocketing along land border corridors even as customs revenue at major seaports continues its downward spiral.
